Clerk blackmails air hostess with private photos to get Dubai job

Dubai - He threatened to send her private photos to both her ex-husband and boss.

A clerk stood trial in a Dubai court after he allegedly blackmailed and threatened to defame an air hostess by sending her private photos to both her ex-husband and her boss if she did not help him get a job at the airlines company where she worked.
The 30-year-old Egyptian man has also been accused in the Court of First Instance of insulting his countrywoman in SMS text messages.
The complainant, 33, said she met the defendant at a telecommunication company branch where he worked in November 2016. They exchanged their numbers and became friends. She introduced him to her son and a group of friends. When she did not accept his marriage proposal, he began stalking her.
He replaced her email address with his own address at the telecom provider and he justified it that he wanted to check whether she was overcharged.
He would drive wherever she might be and follow her around her place. When he lost his job in May 2017, the man asked her to get him a job at her workplace.
When she broke up with him and blocked him on WhatsApp, he started harassing her with his calls. He told her that he had hacked her phone and obtained her private photos, threatening to send the snaps to her ex-husband and superiors at the airlines.
"On July 6, 2017, he sent me a message that he would force me to lose my job after disgracing me among my family members and among the directors where I worked. He also said he would describe my house to my ex-husband. He also blackmailed me and threatened to misuse his photos with my son to damage my reputation unless I did get him the job he wanted. After I had a mental breakdown, I complained against him at Al Rafaa police station," she said.
He kept harassing her later to drop the complaint. She discovered then that he had stolen her cheques from her car when he was replacing a flat tyre. She reported him for that at Sharjah public prosecution.
A 35-year-old Egyptian man said the accused sought his help to reconcile with the complainant in July last year. "We met - the three of us - at a café where he claimed he was tempted by the devil when he stole her cheques. He requested that she dropped her case in return for giving back her cheques and signing a pledge he would stay away from her, to which she agreed on condition he would also pay for the psychiatric treatment she had to go through because of him. But he did nothing of that," the witness said.

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